Phrases I'd Like to Never Hear/See Again.

[Catbird33]

1. "Been there - Done that".

2. I wish people would stop saying "axe" when they mean "ask".

3. I cringe when I hear reasonably intelligent people pronouncing the word "nuclear" as "nuke-u-ler".

4. People that end sentences with a preposition - for example, "I was lookin' for you, where you been AT?" instead of "where have you been?".

5. Educated people who can't seem to pronounce the state of Massachusetts properly; I often hear it pronounced Massachusus or even Massatusus.

 

[DeadAye]

May I see your passport, please?

Is this your bar of soap?

Do you know how fast you were going?

Do you have any idea what you're doing?

Can I borrow your (whatever)?

Really?

Why can't you be more like your brother?
MY brother NEVER heard that one!

 

[H Richard]

Describe a gun as very little WARE, look up the spelling,it's WEAR!

 

[NCTexan]

A gun is a "tool".

 

[32sgteot]

Concerning Tasers, as my LT says " It's not the volts that get you, it's the amps". He's a small town idiot that who's mother got him in the job, after he fell off his motorcycle and was fired elsewhwere. Who cares, when you're tasered you're tasered.
Something I am proud to say as a cop of 28 years I have never would I ever taser someone. In NYC we rolled around with perps til back-up arrived. If the day ever comes that I can't handle a situation w/o a taser, and just on fortitude and integrity, my time in profession is up

 

[therevjay]

"I need my space" what the hell does that mean?

 

[RobertJ.]

My bad, tactical,(and tacticool!), shotty, and "down the pipe"!

 

[feralmerril]

I got to find myself.

 

[mwtdvm]

To be perfectly honest

"To be perfectly honest"

When someone says that they have just said they think there are "degrees" of honesty and since they are qualifying this statement, they are/have been/will be less than perfectly honest. I suspect there is a future for them in politics..

 

[G.T. Smith]

I have noticed a lot of different phrases that are annoying.
at this point in time
do the math
and my all time worst hated term "as well".
I noticed that the folks on our local TV station kept saying "as well" constantly. Even "as well too" sometimes after a singular phrase. I just had to shoot em an e-mail. told them to watch a broadcast and count how many times it was said. Believe it or not it slowed down almost to a stop. never got a reply as well too.

gordon

 

[G.T. Smith]

Some of my biggest pet peeves with regard to language are from "cop talk". We've all seen the "police spokesman" say in a press conference...."the gentlman." What a gross and vulgar misuse of the language. The guy was not a "gentleman"! Wake up! Find something better to call him!.....like ass clown, perp, scum bag, etc.

Right on, that is just as bad as "they arrested the (alleged) criminal. Allegedly caught on a video tape doing the crime, smoking gun and all allegedly.
gordon